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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "huge sum of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "stay blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • brian_olsen222@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Brian Olsen" <brian_olsen222@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:11:42 -0700
Subject: Business Offer!!!

Dear Sir/Madam

I am Mr.Brian Olsen, and I work for Barclay's Bank London UK
I am contacting you for a business transaction of a huge sum
of money from a deceased client of mine.

I was the account officer of a foreigner named Bernard
Poirier who died in an air crash along With his wife
Noreauluce Poirier on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian
airline 990 with other passengers on board (May their soul
rest in peace).

You can confirm
this(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/502503.stm)

Since his death, no one has come to lay claims to his estate
as his heir. The bank will not Release the funds from his
account unless someone applied for claim as the
next-of-kin/beneficiary to the deceased.After eight years
the fund Was called back to the bank treasury as Unclaimed
bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the
bank, which has already been done by the directors mid 2004
at that period he had $14,210,045m (Fourteen Million two
hundred and ten thousand dollars)in his account.

Due to the relationship between me and the deceased (Bernard
Poirier) he told me of a diamond business Which he had to do
and left me in care of the "CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT" which
he Used to lodge some funds in Barclays Financial Vault
Company London this is to the tune of $8.5m (Eight million
five Hundred thousand dollars).That I decided to seek for
whom his/her name shall be used as the Next of
kin/beneficiary to claim the funds at the security firm
rather than allow the funds to lay unclaimed. It may
interest you to know that I have secured from the probate a
WRITE OF MANDAMUS to locate any of the deceased
beneficiaries again; no One was found.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message in acceptance
of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the
Following informationâ ©f you are interested.

1. Full name in order for me to prepare the Document in your
name.


2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers for our

Personal Contact and mutual Trust in each other.I shall be
compensating you with 40% percent Of the Whole funds on
final conclusion of this Project for your assistance. While
the balance shall be for me for investment purposes because
I just retired.


I await your urgent mail.(brian_olsen222@yahoo.fr)

Stay blessed,

Regards

Brian Olsen

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